"Peers and scientists including Professor Stephen Hawking are once again pushing for an official pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing. Turing's death from cyanide poisoning in 1954 was ruled a suicide, coming after his conviction for gross indecency at a time when homosexuality was illegal." The fact that he still hasn't been pardoned is an utter disgrace.

Just because you "hear" one positive statement and don't hear another does not imply the negative statement. Not mentioning others does not imply, in any way, mentioning the others in a negative way.

I can't remember the logical fallacy, but this one of yours is a very big one.

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Stephen Hawking and the others may have one particular motive. That doesn't mean other people can't also jump aboard this with their own motives.

Let's say Stephen Hawking et al, by saying "We should pardon Alan Turing" really does mean "we should not pardon anyone else", that does not stop others from supporting the motion in the hopes of opening the doors to a greater effort to pardon more people.

You and the others are fundamentally engaging in an ad hominem fallacy, it this is what you really believe.

So this is another failure of logic.

He wasn't making an ad hominem argument, and I wish people on comment threads and forums were a little less inclined to throw 'logical fallacy' and other 6th Form level technicalities around at the drop of a hat. Demolishing opposing views one itty bitty sentence at a time does not make for reasoned debate.